Kelly Michels & Open Mic

Join us on Zoom for a poetry reading by Kelly Michels followed by Open Mic!

We will choose the 5 words for the 5 Word Challenge Contest for our First Winter Party (Dec 3rd) at the start of this session! This gives poets two weeks to write a poem with those 5 words which we hope you will then read at the open mic contest on Dec 3rd.

7:45pm - Sign up for Open Mic on Zoom chat

8:00pm - Kelly Michels reading

8:15pm - Open Mic begins

9:10pm - Announcements and Farewells

Kelly Michels' debut poetry collection, American Anthem, published by The Gallery Press was shortlisted for the Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection from the Forward Arts Foundation and the Ondaatje Prize by the Royal Society of Literature. Her poems and essays have appeared in Stinging Fly, Poetry Ireland Review, Banshee Lit, Tampa Review, Best New Poets, New Ohio Review, among others. She previously published two pamphlets, and her poems have received the Rachel Wetzsteon Poetry Prize, the Robert Watson Literary Prize, and the Spoon River Poetry Review Editor’s Prize. She lives in Dublin. 

We are grateful for the support of The Arts Council and Limerick City & County Council.

Zoom closed-captions will be made available for this event.

Participation is limited to the first 100 guests to join.